Expected Moves Tagged for the Week Yet Divergences Remain
The stock market tagged the upper range of the expected move for the week led by the usual suspects. In this video update let's analyze where we really are in this rally based on a few technical signals. Watch this video to find out what we discovered. To find out “How to Take High Probability…
Visiting The Bearish Narratives
Stocks Are Expensive The current market is expensive, but earnings momentum and global growth from the emerging markets are keeping the stock market up. The time the expansion has left is dwindling as the yield curve has been flattening lately. However, the last couple years of gains in a bull market are usually the highest,…
Passive Investing Is 38% Of The Market
Bitcoin Getting Larger But Not Safer In a previous article it was mentioned that with the recent excessive speculation in bitcoin, that bitcoin’s volatility since has been increasing after it went through a stretch of relative calmness. This aspect is important to review because in the past few years, bitcoin proponents have said that the…
Why Traders are Watching Bonds
Stocks quiet in holiday trading. In this video update we took the time to analyze the yield curve. Watch this video to find out what we discovered. This may shock you and have implications for the coming months...
OPEC Meeting On November 30th To Discuss Extending The Cuts
New Sentiment Indicator It’s always interesting to see new metrics which attempt to give added insight. We have the consumer confidence index, the estimate on how much consumers plan to spend on Christmas gifts, and the consumer’s opinion on where the stock market will be in the next year. All three of those sentiment readings…
A Market On Edge
Stocks end volatile week right where it began the week. In this crucial weekend update learn we look at what to expect next week and what risks are lurking. Watch this video to find out what to watch next week. To learn more about how to trade volatility and the VIX watch this free online…
European Junk Bonds Now Yield More Than U.S. Treasuries
Junk Bonds’ Recent Trading On Friday, the small caps outperformed the mega caps as the Russell 2000 - RUT was up 0.40%, while the Dow was down 0.43%. In the midst of this middling action, the JNK high yield bond index was down 0.05% and the HYG high yield bond index was down 0.03%. The…
Wal-Mart & Cisco Drive Stocks Higher
Economy Growing At Potential The chart below is a unique perspective on the economy which isn’t discussed much. It shows the real GDP in relation to the potential GDP. It looks at productivity growth to give you an idea of where the economy is relative to where it can be. Even though GDP growth per…
Walmart Bounce Means More Range into Year-End
Stocks pop higher today on the news the House passed the tax reform bill and good earnings from WMT. Does this mean more new highs or is the market setting the range of trading for the rest of the year. Watch this video to find out. To learn more about how to trade volatility and…
Investors ‘Fearful’ From A 1.15% Pullback
Actually Returns Are Good When Fund Managers Are Taking Risk In a previous article, I showed the chart below without the 3 year forward S&P 500 returns. Some bears were claiming the fact that fund managers are taking more risk than ever meant impending doom. As I mentioned, there have been times when the fund…